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News Release from: Microstar Laboratories | Subject: DAPstudio 3.00
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 November 2006
Acquisition software adds interface
customisation
The latest version of DAP Measurement Studio software includes a new custom window design capability.
DAPstudio 3.00, the latest version of DAP Measurement Studio software from Microstar Laboratories, maker of Data Acquisition Processor (DAP) boards and software, includes a new custom window design capability This lets users size and place different display formats exactly the way you want them
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 Jul 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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You now have a tool to help you quickly create the most effective user interface for your application.
It lets you select any combination of graph, table, waterfall, bar, alarm, and digital volt meter formats to display application data.
And the user can toggle between flat and 3D views.
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The combination of the DAP 840 board with the new DAPstudio software is a development and runtime package to create the real-time solution users need and the Windows product they want.
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You also can almost instantly configure a matrix of user input controls to run experiments or to allow operator input in a production environment.
For instance, the PID tuning simulation application illustrated in the screen shot can very easily be set up in DAPstudio 3.00 with four edit boxes to specify the set point and P, I and D parameters.
With this four-element matrix of user controls in place, a press of a button changes the settings in the application.
Creating the matrix is simple.
You say how many controls you want, and how you want them laid out in columns: in this case, four controls - in one, two, or four columns.
You then add that matrix of user controls to your custom window.
The company website includes other examples that show you how to set up user controls like this for different applications.
Every DAP board includes an onboard processor that runs a real-time operating system, DAPL, that Windows applications - like DAPstudio - can control.
DAP boards also communicate among themselves independently of Windows to synchronise their clocks with one another.
They then all work together as a synchronised data acquisition system not only within a single PC but also across a network.
DAPstudio 3.00 lets you configure every DAP board in a network from a single PC on that network.
It displays a map of the DAP network, with each board represented by an icon.
Clicking on the icon lets you configure that board.
You specify, by choosing from appropriate options presented by DAPstudio at each stage of the configuration process, exactly how that board is to behave at runtime.
DAPstudio expresses this behaviour as a sequence of operations that it downloads for the onboard processor to perform on the flow of acquired data.
As described above, you can use DAPstudio to configure one or more DAPs for an application.
You then can run your application without requiring any other Windows software.
You also can do this from LabView, Matlab, and other third-party software.
And from C++, VB, and other applications that allow DLL calls.
You can quickly create custom user interfaces for your PC-based data acquisition applications using DAPstudio 3.00.
From a single PC you can configure any DAP board on a network and also run a complete application with no other Windows software.
The company provides hardware and software for evaluation at no charge.
You can download a full version of DAPstudio and try it out right now.
If you decide to keep on using DAPstudio after you have tried it, you will need to buy a licence.
That costs US $199.
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